Biomedical Investigative Assistant

Overview

Location: Department of Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC), Honolulu, Hawaii

Pay rate: $18.00-$23.00 hr

Work Schedule: The Department of Clinical Investigation’s administrative customer service hours are 8:00 AM thru 5:00 PM Monday thru Friday (HST) excluding federal holidays

Benefits: PTO, Sick leave, holiday leave, Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short Term Disability

Optional Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(K) matching with employee participation in 401(K) plan

Clinical Trial Support Objectives:

• Provide specimen collection and processing for clinical studies which evaluate new drugs and treatments or evaluate course of disease progression
• Provide laboratory analyses for clinical studies which evaluate devices that improve readiness and military operational medicine

Clinical Trial Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:

• Collect clinical specimens and maintain patient confidentiality as written in protocol
• Process specimens as per specific assay requirements according to protocol
• Store and keep track of specimens in catalogue freezer space until specimens ready for shipment to central laboratories for multisite studies
• Summarize data in databases and prepare summary reports

Translational Physiology Support Objectives:

• Develop and characterize models for promotion of Defense Health Readiness
• Provide laboratory analyses for studies which address military priorities such as combat casualty care, wound healing, and transport medicine
• Investigate therapeutic efficacy of novel molecular or cellular treatments that improve learning

Translational Physiology Study Services – Contract Personnel shall:

• Provide input to laboratory and animal procedures, behavioral analysis, tissue harvesting and histological analysis, molecular and immunological assays, cell culture, and data analysis
• Provide Combat Casualty Post-field Care studies: perform in vitro and in vivo testing of treatment strategy plans to control fluid and electrolyte balance; evaluate effects that mimic prolonged field care and transport medicine; and perform laboratory assays for biomarkers of ischemia and inflammation and hormonal regulation
• Provide Wound Tissue Healing studies: evaluate biomarkers associated with acute lung injury; resistant wound healing in infected wounds, and stem cell effectiveness in reducing inflammatory injury and promoting tissue repair
• Provide Gulf War Illness studies: evaluate experimental therapies for the treatment of Gulf War Illness by performing in vitro assays and in vivo testing in rodent models, to include development of an exosome-mediated drug delivery system, behavioral testing, and evaluating of possible toxic effects on cardiac and renal function

Microbiology Study Objectives:

• Demonstrate the ability to identify molecular and protein biomarkers that detect distinct signatures of emerging infectious diseases
• Characterize new methods for detecting and tracking antimicrobial resistance patterns
• Identify more rapid diagnostic technologies to prescribe correct antibiotics for infected patients
• Provide infectious disease surveillance in the Pacific Region

Microbiology Study Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:

• Collect and process clinical specimens and maintain patient confidentiality working with de-identified specimens
• Analyze bacteria and virus infected specimens with different molecular assays and protein biomarker assays to compare
• Evaluate unique DNA signatures and prevalence of antimicrobial resistant in clinical specimens
• Contribute specimens and data to biobanks and analyze results for disease surveillance programs

Degree: Bachelors degree in basic biomedical research field (to include, but not limited to biology, chemistry, zoology, microbiology) OR a minimum 1 year demonstrated experience in laboratory research.

Experience:

• Demonstrate experience in laboratory research to include laboratory course work at the collegiate level.
• Demonstrate laboratory research experience or work on clinical studies to include data collection and analyses.
• Knowledge and experience in performing basic laboratory procedures to include but not limited to…